Richmond Virginia. Spotswood hotel. (Main Street) – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. Spotswood hotel. (Main Street) brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Richmond Virginia. Spotswood hotel. (Main Street)
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Few hotels in Richmond carried as much history into the Civil War as the Spotswood, which stood on Main Street and took its name from Alexander Spotswood, a colonial governor of Virginia. This 1865 view, made on a wet collodion glass negative, was taken in the months when the Confederate capital fell and Union forces occupied the city. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in Richmond that year and recorded its streets and buildings in stereoscopic pairs, which were viewed through special lenses to create a sense of depth. Its caption spells the hotel's name with a double "t," a variant that appears in period records.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. Spottswood Hotel. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,341 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50887 |
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